Question

What inference can be drawn in this excerpt from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice?

Answer 1

C) Mr. Bennet's property cannot pass to his daughters because the law dictates that a male descendant must inherit it.

Answer 2

Answer:

C) Mr. Bennet's property cannot pass to his daughters because the law dictates that a male descendant must inherit it.

Explanation:

This is so because in the excerpt it says that “Mr. Bennet property consisted almost entirely in a state of two thousand a year, which unfortunately for his daughters was entailed in default of heirs male, on a distant relation…”